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  • August 2007

    • Muslim Donut Franchisee Fights Pork

      Chicago Tribune  |  Aug 1, 07 4:49 PM CDT

      Muslim Donut Franchisee Fights Pork

      (Newser) - The owner of two Chicago-area Dunkin' Donuts is locked in a legal dispute with the company over conflicts between his religious beliefs and his breakfast menu, the Chicago Tribune reports. A franchisee since 1979, Walid Elkhatib has never served pork products; it wasn't until 2002 that Dunkin' Donuts insisted he toe the line or lose stores. More »

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      lawsuit  • food  • religion  • Islam  • discrimination  • Muslim  • Dunkin' Donuts  • pork  • Arabs  • franchise  • breakfast sandwiches  • donut

  • July 2007

    • Hitchens: Stop Fearing (and Coddling) Islam

      Slate  |  Jul 31, 07 10:38 AM CDT

      Hitchens: Stop Fearing (and Coddling) Islam

      (Newser) - Unflappable contrarian Christopher Hitchens asks why he's accused of "insulting 1.5 billion Muslims" whenever he challenges their faith in public. Arguing that no other group takes such umbrage when its empirical beliefs are questioned, the militant secularist concludes that the appeal to Muslims' feelings has an "unmistakable note of menace" behind it. More »

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      religion  • Islam  • violence  • Muslim  • Koran  • Christopher Hitchens

    • France Shuts Islamic Camp for Kids

      News24 (South Africa)  |  Jul 25, 07 8:30 AM CDT

      France Shuts Islamic Camp for Kids

      (Newser) - French officials have sent home 96 children after determining that they were subjected to an "excessively rigorous" religious regimen at summer camp in the Vosges mountains, reports AFP. "We had information that children were being physically threatened," said one official. One child called police to say he had been forced awake at night to pray. More »

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      France  • children  • Islam  • Muslims

    • Turkish Elections Boost PM

      Reuters  |  Jul 22, 07 6:00 PM CDT

      Turkish Elections Boost PM

      (Newser) - Turkey’s ruling party dominated parliamentary elections today despite its perceived threat to the nation’s entrenched secularism. The elections were moved up after the secular opposition foiled PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan's attempt to install an ex-Islamist ally as president. The results, seen as a mandate for the AKP, also raise the risk of increased conflict, Reuters reports. More »

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      European Union  • Turkey  • Islam  • Kurds  • Kurdistan  • Recep Tayyip Erdogan  • secularism  • Turkish elections  • AK Party  • AKP

    • Pope Pounds Protestants

      Reuters  |  Jul 11, 07 5:32 AM CDT

      Pope Pounds Protestants

      (Newser) - In a remarkable nod to the 16th century, Pope Benedict XVI’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which he once led, said of Protestant denominations, 'it is nevertheless difficult to see how the title of 'Church' could possibly be attributed to them." The document restates Benedict's position set forth in 2000 when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger. More »

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      Islam  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Protestants  • Orthodox Christianity

    • Radicals Kill Pakistani Colonel

      BBC  |  Jul 8, 07 11:00 AM CDT

      Radicals Kill Pakistani Colonel

      (Newser) - A Pakistani colonel leading an attempt to breach the walls of a mosque where Islamic students are holed up has been shot and killed, the BBC reports. Since last Tuesday, when the standoff began, 20 people are believed to have died. Pakistan's President Musharraf has said the Islamic fighters "will be killed" if they do not surrender soon. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Islam  • terrorist  • Islamic militants  • Red Mosque

    • Pakistan Mosque Battle Kills 9

      BBC  |  Jul 3, 07 4:35 PM CDT

      Pakistan Mosque Battle Kills 9

      (Newser) - A heavy gun battle between Pakistan's government and armed students at a radical mosque has left nine dead, the BBC reports. The melee lasted throughout the day as soldiers traded fire with militant students at Islamabad's controversial Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque. Among the dead were three female students, a soldier, and a journalist. More »

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      Pakistan  • Pervez Musharraf  • Islam  • Islamabad  • Red Mosque  • Islamic Sharia law  • Sharia law  • mixed martial arts  • Lal Masjid

  • June 2007

    • Egypt Suffers From a Fatwa Free-for-All

      New York Times  |  Jun 12, 07 3:08 PM CDT

      Egypt Suffers From a Fatwa Free-for-All

      (Newser) - The credibility of fatwas, the religious rulings that guide daily life for Muslims, is being strained in Egypt, the New York Times reports.  A flap ensued recently when one authority ruled in favor of  drinking the Prophet Mohammed’s urine and another approved co-ed workplaces if the women breast-fed male colleagues to make them "family." More »

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      Islam  • Egypt  • law  • Muslim  • Mohammed  • fatwa

    • Face It: Court Approves Full Veil at Cairo U

      BBC  |  Jun 12, 07 12:00 PM CDT

      Face It: Court Approves Full Veil at Cairo U

      (Newser) - Women at the American University in Cairo cannot be barred from wearing the traditional Islamic veil covering the entire face, or niqab, a court has ruled after a lengthy battle, reports the BBC. While some hailed the ruling as a blow for religious freedom, others blasted it as a dangerous drift toward Islamic extremism.  More »

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      women  • Islam  • Muslim  • dress code  • Cairo  • Islamic veil

  • May 2007

    • Pope Backtracks on Muslims

      Reuters  |  May 29, 07 5:31 AM CDT

      Pope Backtracks on Muslims

      (Newser) - The Pope applied some salve to wounded relations with the Muslim world yesterday after neglecting and then appearing to slander Islam in a speech last fall. In a surprising reversal, Benedict XVI announced he is restoring the Vatican department responsible for Muslim affairs, which he demoted in importance last year. More »

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      religion  • Islam  • Catholic Church  • Pope Benedict XVI  • Vatican  • Vatican City

    • Tolerant Swiss to Ban Minarets?

      BBC  |  May 28, 07 9:57 PM CDT

      Tolerant Swiss to Ban Minarets?

      (Newser) - The Swiss have gone NIMBY (not in my back yard) on minarets.  While Switzerland's constitution guarantees freedom of religion, a number of leading politicians want to ban them via a referendum this fall.  There are now exactly two minarets in all of Switzerland. More »

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      religion  • Islam  • Switzerland  • Islamic law

    • Iran Charges American Scholar

      Washington Post  |  May 22, 07 11:20 AM CDT

      Iran Charges American Scholar

      (Newser) - The Iranian government has charged an Iranian-American scholar already in custody in Tehran with working for "the soft-toppling of the country." Haleh Esfandiari, 67, was arrested May 8 after being under house arrest since January. The accusations come just days before American and Iranian diplomats are to meet in Baghdad for talks about the Iraq war. More »

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      Iraq war  • Iran  • Middle East  • CIA  • Islam  • Haleh Esfandiari  • scholar

    • Nigerian Prez Accuses VP of Death Threat

      BBC  |  May 22, 07 7:27 AM CDT

      Nigerian Prez Accuses VP of Death Threat

      (Newser) - The president of Nigeria and his former vice president are locked in a jihad of words, after the latter allegedly consulted Islamic holy men about when the former would die, and assured other ministers the date was not far off. President Olesugun Obasanjo decried the treasonous consultation, but added that he is "not afraid of such stupidity." More »

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      Islam  • Nigeria  • Atiku Abubakar  • occult  • Olesugun Obasanjo

    • Lebanon Seeks Aid in Fighting Islamists

      CNN  |  May 22, 07 5:07 AM CDT

      Lebanon Seeks Aid in Fighting Islamists

      (Newser) - Lebanon's finance minister appealed to Arab and Western governments yesterday, begging for money and supplies to help fight militants in a Palestinian refugee camp. Thirty Lebanese troops, 15 members of the group Fatah al-Islam, and more than 25 civilians have been killed in two days of clashes. More »

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      George W. Bush  • Palestine  • Islam  • Syria  • Lebanon  • refugee  • refugee camp  • extremists  • Fatah al Islam  • Lebanese Army

    • Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea

      Economist  |  May 7, 07 7:53 AM CDT

      Between The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea

      (Newser) - If the choice is between somewhat more religion in public life and democracy in Turkey, choose the latter, argues the Economist. The ruling party's choice of an Islamist candidate, Abdullah Gul, for president set off a familiar confrontation between the Turkish military and the political establishment. The Economist asks, "if Turkey cannot reconcile Islam and democracy, who can?" More »

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      Turkey  • Islam  • democracy  • secularism  • Abdullah Gul  • Kemal Ataturk

    • Turkish PM Backs Election Overhaul

      Jerusalem Post (Israel)  |  May 1, 07 7:38 PM CDT

      Turkish PM Backs Election Overhaul

      (Newser) - Turkey's prime minister put his weight behind a new, popular presidential vote, hours after a court invalidated Friday's election by parliament. The secular opposition had boycotted that vote because of the Islamist background of the lone candidate, foreign minister Abdullah Gul. More »

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      election  • Turkey  • Islam  • Recep Tayyip Erdogan  • secularism  • Abdullah Gul

  • April 2007

    • Million Turks Rally for Secularism

      BBC  |  Apr 30, 07 6:35 AM CDT

      Million Turks Rally for Secularism

      (Newser) - Secular Turks staged an enormous rally yesterday amid a constitutional crisis over the election of the next president, the BBC reports. As many as a million protesters turned out in Istanbul to oppose ruling-party candidate Abdullah Gul, who they're afraid is orchestrating an Islamic coup in the country even as it seeks E.U. membership and modernization. More »

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      European Union  • Middle East  • election  • Turkey  • Islam  • politics  • protests  • secularism  • Istanbul  • Abdullah Gul  • modernization  • rally  • radical

    • Gunmen Execute 23 In Kurdish Sect

      Associated Press  |  Apr 22, 07 3:54 PM CDT

      Gunmen Execute 23 In Kurdish Sect

      (Newser) - Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus carrying workers home from a textile factory  today, identified 23 members of a tiny religious sect on board, and shot them to death. The bus was filled with Christians and Yazidis, a mostly Kurdish sect that worships an angel, the AP reports. More »

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      Iraq  • religion  • Islam  • car bomb  • execution  • Mosul  • Yazidi  • stoning

    • Iran Frees Murderous Vice Squad

      New York Times  |  Apr 19, 07 4:12 PM CDT

      Iran Frees Murderous Vice Squad

      (Newser) - Iran's Supreme Court has exonerated a group of Islamic hardliners earlier convicted of the vigilante killing of Iranians they considered "morally corrupt,"  the Times reports. Six members of the Basiji force, an elite paramilitary group, were originally convicted of murdering five people, including an engaged couple walking together in public. More »

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      Iran  • Islam  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad  • fundamentalism  • Ayatollah Ali Khameni

    • Islamic Scholars Need U.S.

      Baltimore Sun  |  Apr 6, 07 4:27 PM CDT

      Islamic Scholars Need U.S.

      (Newser) - The Iraq war may be unforgiveable, but America has given Islam a priceless gift: a haven for Muslim scholarship, says a professor at the University of Deleware. "Muslim scholars have always maintained that true happiness comes from the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge," writes M. A. Muqtedar Khan. "I found this to be the case in America." More »

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      Iraq  • Iraq war  • Islam  • education  • school  • America  • Muslim  • scholarship

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